The Farmer's Wife a Comedy in Three Acts Author:Eden Phillpotts 1917. Eden Phillpotts, British novelist, poet, and dramatist, was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. The Farmer's Wife follows a widower who lives on a farm with his housekeeper and is combing the countryside in search of a wife, blind to the attachment his housekeeper has developed for him. See other titles by this autho... more »r available from Kessinger Publishing.« less